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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
More NSA Revelations
This New York Times story on the NSA is very good, and contains lots of little tidbits of new information gleaned from the Snowden documents. The agency’s Dishfire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hofstadter Making Machines Think
In the Atlantic: An extensive article on author Douglas Hofstadter and machine learning. We read with great gusto his book : Godel, Escher Bach back in the 80s...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Critical Questions for CS Education Research
This weekend CSTA Chair Deborah Seehorn and I were attending the ACM Education Council meetings and, as part of the meeting, we participated in a group discussion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Color From L'Oreal
In Clickz: New ways to market cosmetics in context. With similarity to some of our virtual makeover work. " ... In a location perhaps better known for rats and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 4
November 4 Meeting: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is meeting to discuss national security surveillance programs (the meeting was originally scheduled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Infringing IBM Patents
A piece in Gigom: Had a number of discussions with IBM when when they were doing lots of social media exploration for improving internal communications, so not...
From Putting People First
Experientia presents “BancoSmart”, the innovative ATM interface designed for UniCredit Bank
The user-centred approach is moving into finance, as banks increasingly connect to their customers’ needs and wants. As part of this trend, global banking and financial...
From Putting People First
Experientia rivoluziona la user experience degli ATM con “BancoSmart”, l’innovativa interfaccia degli ATM UniCredit
Le banche stanno cercando sempre più di entrare in sintonia con le esigenze ed i desideri dei propri clienti, innovando i propri prodotti e servizi secondo una...
From Schneier on Security
badBIOS
Good story of badBIOS, a really nasty piece of malware. The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps. Ruiu said he arrived at the theory...
From Putting People First
Ottagono Magazine features Experientia
In the article “Interaction Design, After Ivrea” Stefano Mirti reflects on the history of the renowned Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and what was born out...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 November 2013
The big news were I live last week was the Red Sox winning the World Series. Nothing at all to do with computing. Even with all the excitement I managed to find...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Really Scary Thought
A scary question, a really scary question Vincent Price was just featured last Thursday night with a series of his movies, scary horror ones shown on Turner Classic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essential Office Elements and Clouds
If we look at the triple of basic office tools: Word processing, spreadsheets and slideshows. its interesting to see the competitors today. Especially when we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Back to Robots for the IPad
Had cause to go back to the Robots for the iPad App, had not been there for some time. Its by the IEEE, does an excellent job of surveying a number of robot implementation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Supply Chain Talent
Something we had a priority for. Something we also found to be one of the easiest kinds of talent to get outside because it is a mature idea in many industries...
From Putting People First
Ethnography: is your company missing the train?
Michael Ohler, Phil Samuel and Mark McMurray of BMGI argue in Industry Week that focusing on human behavior and personal experiences can help you discover unmet...
From Putting People First
[Book] Changing Behaviours: On the Rise of the Psychological State
Changing Behaviours: On the Rise of the Psychological State by Rhys Jones, Jessica Pykett and Mark Whitehead Edward Elgar Publishers 2013, 240 pages [Amazon link]...
From Putting People First
First Swedish PhD thesis in service design
Stakeholder Engagement for Service Design is the title of the first Swedish PhD thesis in service design. In the dissertation defended last week at Linköping University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tackling the Shopping List
A problem we worked on for years. The smart shopping list. Starting with a Blackberry implementation. And many others. But was that the best approach? A self...
From Apophenia